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MARRIED

... the wedding which took place in St. Stephen's Church, 1 Hyson Green, on Saturday of a Nottingham soldier, who in the Battle of the Somme last vear lost the sight of both eyes. He was Private W. G. Parker, of the 2nd Northants, and his father lives in N ...

Published: Friday 30 November 1917
Newspaper: Mansfield Reporter
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 241 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SLAUGHTE.'

... will be able to go over the top with a walk- IT HAPPENED sixty years ago this morning, July I—the first day of the Battle of the Somme. There were around 57,000 casualties that summer day 21,392 men were killed, most of them in the first three hours. ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1976
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 238 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

BOOKS

... words of Bob Haigh and Philip Turner, In Not Fer Glory (Pergamon Press, 35s ). Particularly id I. the account of the Battle of this Somme in the summer of 1916. in which British casualties alone rose to a Peals of 002 0 0 —over 20,000 kille4—ln a single ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1969
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 250 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Festival of flowers h' A FEATURE of the Mil. re lea celebrati• ns at Church of St.. •mes's and St

... was written only a day before James, who a l; was second•in-command , of the 10th Be West s m . Yorks, died in the Battle of the Somme. Both James and his it . brother. Basil. whose names live on in the churth's dedication to the two into, were mosla• ...

Published: Thursday 04 June 1981
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 281 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

halts Newcastle streets

... seemed far may as heat/rave. 9 Auld the. the bond fa Ilea:6V 1111111/IARMY ST rood Cho Chrome% Isms 'Own Wands, Nest Big Battle on the Somme. Thousands of G . woos Captured of Retreat' as a t:= able. the headline. were changed - Threat ia Saar, Heavy POW Trenelt ...

Published: Thursday 13 September 1984
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 281 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

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... everyone realised they were made from plaster of parts, which La the darkness he had mistaken for flour In that first battle of the /Somme. the sth Battalion. Northumberland Fusiliers, under Lieut.-Col. C. Turner. had to travel more than 550 yards to reach ...

Published: Monday 16 March 1964
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 304 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

OLLERTON

... same as I always did on the other side of the water. I should have liked to have gone a little further in this big battle of the Somme. It was a fine sight to see the way our guns knocked the Huns' trenches about before any infantry went to visit them ...

Published: Friday 08 September 1916
Newspaper: Mansfield Reporter
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 291 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

•.00 MR. BENN

... Life of Robert the Bruce), • lecturer Ipre-Conquest History of Mexicol and an industrialist relations officer (The Battle of the Somme). 8.15 BERGERAC. Portrait of Yesterday. Bergerac becomes involved in the mystery surrounding a big Jersey wedding. Someone ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1981
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 316 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

;firths, Marriages, Se Medi7s

... Children PEARSON. — In loving memory of Lance- Corporal Peter Pearson (son of the above), who was killed in action in the battle of the Somme, Sept. 26th, 1916. A loving son and brother kind, He was to us in heart and mind; He always strove to do his hest ...

Published: Friday 28 September 1917
Newspaper: Mansfield Reporter
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 303 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Back Cancer victim, 52, to the killed herself Somme

... will TM play the story of gab by bock crow sod • midi., a HIS at the time of broke into various K i , gan „i a tbe Battle of Ma Somme. modifies: bes.d on mattmal drawn cask Molt km met boon from documentar *mitres raemMed entered bell govern- y hi, ...

Published: Wednesday 07 May 1980
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 324 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

S.). AI.SUT

... ponrsit of the fellow members of our solar system. 11.00 LIONS LED BY DONKEYS. Some of the remaining survivors of the Battle of the Somme, in July 1916, now in their nineties, tell their remarkable stories. 0.00 UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS. A quarrel breaks out ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1985
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 310 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Golden In brief jubilee Parish aims for the 'sky' has a In 13 month the Parish of St Mary .Magdalene

... Hem , : Basd Knott eras killed et Y pres m 1915 and his brother. Cant James Leadbitter Knott on the first day of the Battle of the Somme the following )ear They are buried together in Ypres cemetery There a swami glass ..ndow to their memory is the Fathom ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1981
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 345 | Page: 17 | Tags: none